Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
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No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
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The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.